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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:36:38 -0500
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- Sender: Qualitative Research for the Human Sciences <QUALRS-L@UGA.BITNET>
- From: Nicholas Sturm <aa248@YFN.YSU.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Coding in qualitative analysis
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- >In <QUALRS-L%93012213081569@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> Al Futrell <AWFUTR01@ULKYVM.BITNET>
- >writes:
- >
- >>Travis: The following point you make is interesting. Are you
- >> quantifying some measure to determine whether or not you
- >> have committed these errors or are you using Type I and
- >> Type II as metaphors for the errors that a qualitative
- >> approach (researcher) might make?
- >-----point not repeated--------
- >
- > My use of "Type I" and "Type II" just referred to the *kind* of
- >errors that were being made, with no implication abut statistical
- >measures. (Some were used in my study, but I used a pretty minimalist
- >approach to stats, at least by today's number-crunching standards.)
- >The key point is that qualitative methods can be prone to such errors,
- >because we make assertions based on data. In the spirit of this group
- >I am loath to require quantification of such errors and am rather more
- >interested in the form of the errors we researchers can make.
- > Reviewing the >snippet above, I would also like to comment on the
- >word "metaphor". I think it's a bit strong. Type I and Type II
- >errors *can* have probabilistic statements made about them in some
- >contexts. However, it is the *nature* of the error (i.e., saying it's
- >there when it's not, or vice-versa) to which we refer. Thus, in point
- >of fact I would hazard a guess that the requirement of quantification
- >to which I referred in the preceding paragraph is actually an artefact
- >of our deference to statistics and not at all necessary.
- > Hope I said this all in something resembling correct English....
-
- All sound a reasonable use to me. 'f course my classroom years are
- far away and I'm associating these with the concepts of alpha and beta
- errors. Trust it's close to the same thing.
-
- >
- >((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
- >Travis Gee () tgee@ccs.carleton.ca ()
- > () tgee@acadvm1.uottawa.ca () ()()()()
- > () () ()
- > () ()()()()()()()()()
- >Recent government figures indicate that 43% of all statistics
- >are utterly useless.
- >
- >
-
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